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Jan 20, 2011

Alan Freed obituary by Gloria Stavers

Alan Freed May 65 
Alan Freed, the Cleveland disc jockey credited with coining the term "rock and roll," died at age 43 on January 20, 1965.  Gloria wrote this tribute to Freed (who was inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986) in the May 1965 issue of 16.

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